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Literary Devices
Hemingway
WW1 Poets
The Sun also Rises
Important Lit. Terms
100
the repetition of speech sounds, generally consonant sounds
What is alliteration
100
what year did Hemingway win the Nobel Prize in literature
What is 1954
100
Poets were often part of what generation
What is the lost generation
100
Who is the narrator of the novel
Who is Jake Barnes
100
a poem of mourning for the dead
What is an elegy
200
a brief reference to a familiar idea, person, or thing
What is an allusion
200
What was Hemingway's role in WW1
What is an ambulance driver
200
poets wrote cynically because they were largely...
What is disillusioned
200
Who is the girl Barnes loves
Who is Brett Ashley
200
a figure of speech in which something related is substituted for the whole (ex. all hands on deck instead of all crewmen)
What is synecdote
300
a short story concerning a individual or event
What is an anecdote
300
What newspaper did Hemingway write for
What is the Toronto Star Weekly
300
John McCrae wrote what poem
What is "In Flanders Fields"
300
What does Jake's disability symbolise
What is the loss of manhood
300
pairs of rhyming lines, usually in sonnets
What is a couplet
400
figures of speech which establish a parallel between two apparently dissimilar things
What is a conceit
400
What year was The Sun also Rises published
What is 1926
400
the poem "The solider" was written by who
Who is Rupert Brooke
400
Why is Robert Cohn different from the other characters (2 answers)
What is that he is jewish and never actually fought in the war
400
a rhetorical device in which the narrator addresses a personified abstraction
What is an apostrophe
500
the repetition of a word for emphasis in successive clauses
What is an anaphora
500
Hemingway wrote most of his work in what city
What is Paris
500
Why was Erich Maria Remarque's viewpoint of the war different
What is that he was from the central power's side
500
The Sun also Rises is influenced by what literary sources/ people (name one of the two)
What is T.S. Elliot's the Wasteland and Ezra Pound
500
an extended speech in which a character expresses thoughts already known to the audience
What is a soliloquy